[Novices] recording/encoding streaming data

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I haven't written to KLUG for over a year but still listen in.  
> Currently I am trying to find a way listen to a program
> such as BBC world news on the internet and move the digital stream 
> directly into a wav file  and possible encode it in real time to mp3, 
> starting and stopping the process with key strokes as if it were a tape 
> recorder.  I currently use Fedora Core 3 which may limit avaibable 
> resouces.    I have tried to implement strec, a stream recorder, but I> 
> was not able to compile several prerequisite programs. 

mplayer will let you record a stream to a file.